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Nevada: Gary Johnson pulling more votes from Obama than Romney in tight race

Romney’s big gain over the last month has been with white voters, who he’s going from leading 52-45 with to 55-42. He’s made gains across the party spectrum, notably increasing his crossover support with Democrats from 10% to 16% and cutting Obama’s lead with independents from 15 points down to 7 points.

The main groups fueling Obama’s continued lead are Hispanics, who give him a 67-32 advantage, and young voters who favor him 67-33.

When Gary Johnson’s included he gets 3% and actually takes mostly from Obama, pulling his lead over Romney down to 48/47. That could be something worth keeping an eye on.

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So-cons want to use the power of government to push their ideal. They embrace the idea of government power just as fully as the godless commies, they just wish to use it for different ends. Like forcing their moral codes on non-believers.

Daikokuco on October 11, 2012 at 5:03 PM

Most social conservatives are pro-life and believe that the government has a legitimate role to play there, because prohibiting abortion is actually protecting liberty — the liberty of the unborn child. Abortion has nothing to do with the liberty of the mother, since a second person with their own rights has been created.

Beyond that one single issue, though, where do you see social conservatives wanting to use government power, even to the degree of the “godless commies,” to push their moral code on non-believers? I know libertarians like to get their panties in a wad about drug laws, but that is one single issue and, believe it or not, is not one in which social conservatives act as a single, monolithic group. I, for one, oppose federal drug laws, for example, except as relates to importing or exporting drugs from the country, because I don’t see where the constitution grants the government that power.

But I am a social conservative because I believe that the root of all of our problems today, including the economic problems, is the breakdown of families and of our collective societal morality. However, my solution to that is not to have the government somehow attempting to mandate a return to morality. Rather, I want to see the government get OUT of things which are leading to the social problems we have today. Like welfare state programs that have led to fathers being replaced by government benefits. And so on.